Category Archives: Politics

PFImary schooling

Posted on January 3, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Just two months after unveiling a controversial and flawed ‘Primary School Review’, our Labour administration seems intent on implementing the plan without even bothering to respond to the criticisms levelled against it. This week has seen announcements of a large … Continue reading →

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Counting the cost of Brown's Britain

Posted on December 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

1997 – 292 families homeless in Bristol 2007 – 449 families homeless in Bristol

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Counting the cost of Brown's Britain

Posted on December 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

£180,000 – the amount of money Bristol City Council will pay their new Chief Executive, career bureaucrat Jan Ormondroyd – who’s never had to take a risk in her life – EVERY YEAR until she chooses to pack it in … Continue reading →

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WORLD EXCLUSIVE – Blunkett: "Why are you such a fucking greedy bastard"?

Posted on December 12, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Extraordinary scenes yesterday at the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster when a couple of the Met’s goons attempted to arrest Ian Bone after speaking at a conference on community empowerment at the invitation of the Scarman Trust. Bone, who spoke at … Continue reading →

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Labour funding: corruption's coming home!

Posted on November 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

It’s been very quiet over on Kerry McCarthy’s blog since the Labour Party funding scandal caught fire earlier this week. It’s just silence – not even an attempt at the latest unbelievable and threadbare “line to take” – from the … Continue reading →

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Prostitution poll joy

Posted on November 27, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Following The Blogger’s latest tirade on prostitution in Eastville last month, the local MP, Kerry McCarthy, has set up a poll on her website to explore opinion on the issue. Options include the setting up of a formal tolerance zone … Continue reading →

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Bristol Labour watch

Posted on November 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Green councillor Charlie Bolton points out in the depths of his blog that Labour’s new proposals for the home care service will break their election promise not to privatise any more of the service. Labour’s social services boss, Peter Hammond … Continue reading →

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Things that come back to haunt you

Posted on November 20, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Kerry McCarthy has this to say about Labour’s new foreign office GOAT (Government of all the talents – geddit!), Mark Malloch Brown: he clearly has a huge breadth of knowledge, gained from years of working at the UN. I think … Continue reading →

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Half our pupils are missing

Posted on November 19, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Can it only be last week that Labour’s deranged multiculturalist guru Peter Hammond announced: he believed school was a place we went for the opportunity to meet other cultures that lived around us. But oh dear. What a shock. How … Continue reading →

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Hammond does it again!

Posted on November 18, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

As expected Labour’s Deputy Leader, the bearded fool, Peter Hammond is destroying yet more of Bristol’s Social Services because the hopeless incompetent can’t understand – let alone control – expenditure in his department (again). Back in 2005, as leader of … Continue reading →

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